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The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$264k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$771kReligion$312kHousing & Shelter$268kHealth$242kCommunity Improvement$130kRecreation & Sports$105kYouth Development$100kInternational$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANDREW'S - SEWANEE SCHOOL$39,000
BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION$32,000
GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH$30,000
GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES$20,000
SETON FOUNDATION$18,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$15,000
SOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FUND$15,000
ST STEPHENS AND ST AGNES SCHOOL$10,000
SEWANEE PARENT ORGANIZATION$10,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$8,000
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY$8,000
OZ ARTS INC$5,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$5,000
CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY$5,000
NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BETTERFI: $5k → 21%BETTERFI: $4k → 21%BETTERFI: $3k → 21%BETTERFI: $3k → 21%RITTER CENTER: $11k → 8%THE RITTER CENTER: $7k → 8%THE RITTER CENTER: $5k → 8%THE RITTER CENTER: $5k → 8%THE FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 14%THE FAMILY CENTER: $500 → 14%FOLKS AT HOME: $5k → 13%FOLKS AT HOME: $3k → 13%FOLKS AT HOME: $1k → 13%FOLKS AT HOME: $1k → 13%FOLKS AT HOME: $1k → 13%KIDIZENSHIP: $3k → 14%KIDIZENSHIP: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
VA
NM
TN
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 41 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
21

Total granted

$2.2M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+41%

Still filing today

76%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +72%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +44%
  • BT
    BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • BF
    BRAVER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $24k
  • W
    WISHBONE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Tenngreen Land Conservancy

The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.

Recreation & Sports
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
6
Southwestern Law School

For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…

Education
7
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
8
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
9
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
10
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
11
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Andrew's-Sewanee School; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH: $244,500 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD CHURCHST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL: $204,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWISHBONE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherWISHBONE FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $54,500 · OtherST MARYS SEWANEE A CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL: $41,500 · Other+32 more: $385,417 · Other+32 moreUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $183,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $95,000 · EducationST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGN…UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $90,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NA…SEWANEE PARENT ORGANIZATION: $75,000 · EducationSEWANEE PARENT ORGANIZA…MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $25,500 · Education+3 more: $31,250 · Education+3 moreBORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION: $158,000 · PhilanthropyBORN THIS WAY …SOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FUND: $130,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH CUMBERLA…Tennessee Kidney Foundation Inc: $24,500 · PhilanthropyTennessee Kidn…GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INC: $264,000 · Housing & ShelterGOOD SAMARIT…+1 more: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterOZ ARTS INC: $54,250 · Arts & CultureCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $38,650 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureDB Peru Inc: $50,000 · HealthSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $29,500 · HealthSOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY CLINIC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · HealthRITTER CENTER: $27,500 · Human ServicesBETTERFI: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOLKS AT HOME: $10,500 · Human ServicesCUL2VATE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesKIDIZENSHIP INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$1,099,917Education$500,350Philanthropy$312,500Housing & Shelter$267,500Arts & Culture$95,900Health$88,000Human Services$66,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INC: $264,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL: $204,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $183,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION: $158,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FUND: $130,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE: $90,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSEWANEE PARENT ORGANIZATION: $75,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $54,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOZ ARTS INC: $54,250 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDB Peru Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetST MARYS SEWANEE A CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL: $41,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $38,650 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $29,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRITTER CENTER: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $25,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTennessee Kidney Foundation Inc: $24,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPATRIOT FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAbundance Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBETTERFI: $15,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMountain Goat Trail Alliance Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOLKS AT HOME: $10,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLEARNING MATTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDIZENSHIP INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARION ANIMAL RESOURCE CONNECT: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S-SEWANEE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds SEWANEE PARENT ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OZ ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DB Peru Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS SEWANEE A CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL ↗
  • Who funds CENTENNIAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Tennessee Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Abundance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BETTERFI ↗
  • Who funds Mountain Goat Trail Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOLKS AT HOME ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Memorial Foundation IncTN25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbo · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cartinhour-Woods Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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